Reply #59: Truley true [View All]

[Mojeoux]

In Santa Fe, sometimes there are fights in the bars about who's taking land from who.

The neighbors I lived near in Northern New Mexico were very isolated. Their ancestors came from Spain, not with the conquistadors, but from the prisons of Spain and from family scandals like Australia.

Their job was to make the natives build churches. They did.
They also brought with them this BIZARRE mutation of Catholicism, called Penetente. (pen uh ten' tay)
This is way up in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, like 7 8 thousand ft.

On every good Friday a member of the community, was KILLED on a cross like Christ. Along with two others, the guy , who was chosen for his Christ-like ways, would carry a Huge cross up to the foot of Truchas Peak and allow himself to be crucified.
It all stopped when NM was made a state. From then on the guy was tied on, left for 3 days and let down.

How amazing huh?